Clothes-pounder.



PATENTBD FEB'. 4, 1908.

H. L. GROOKER.

CLOTHES POUNDBR. APPLICATION PIL W/T/wissas.- Mf/yl IVE/WOR.

l l l Il/ A fr0/PNE V5 I HARRY L. OROOKER, OF UNION CITY, lEENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

Application filed June 22, 1907. Serial No. 380.331-

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY L. ORooKER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Union City, in the county ofErie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulClothes-Founder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes pounders of that character utilizingair compartments whereby the eniciency of the pounder is increased.Clothes pounders of this character have heretofore been objectionablebecause after they have been used for some time, particularly uponoveralls or other garments worn by mechanics, grease, dirt, etc.,accumulates within the clothes pounder at points where it can not bereached for the purposes of cleaning the same.

The object of the invention is to so construct the clothes pounder thatthe same may be opened to permit access to the interior thereof so thatall objectionable accumulations can be removed.

Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction and combinations of parts which will behereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred form of theinvention.

In said drawings: Figure l is a side elevation of a clothes pounderembodying the present improvements. therethrough.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, l designates thefrusto-conical base portion of the pounder, the same being preferablyformed of sheet metal and surrounding a disk 2 located near the smallend of the base portion and supporting a substantially cylindricaltubular casing 8 arranged concentric with the base 1. The major portionof the disk is concavo-conveX in cross section as indicated at 2a toform a recess or receptacle for sediment conveyed into the upper portionof the pounder. EX- tending through the disk 2 at the center thereof isa tapered tube 4 which is also substantially concentric with the base 1and casing 3 and that portion of the tube projecting above the disk hasa plurality of apertures 5 therein disposed above the bottom of theconcavity 2a so that sediment becomes entrapped within the depressedportion of the disk 2. The small end of the base l is provided with acoarse screw thread I Fig. 2 is a section.

as indicated at 6, said thread being preferably produced by stamping themetal of which the base is formed, This thread is designed to engage acorresponding thread 7 which is similarly formed at the large end of thefrusto-conical cap portion 8 of the pounder. This cap portion is alsopreferably formed of sheet metal and the upper or small end thereof issecured to or formed with a tube 9. One end of this tube projects beyondthe cap portion while the other end thereof is designed when the cap isin engagement with the base l, to surround the small end of the taperedtube 4.

A desired number of openings 10 are formed within the cap portion 8preferably adjacent the small end thereof and disposed above each ofthese openings is a hood 1l which, as shown in Fig. l, preferablyincreases in area toward its lower or outlet end. A handle such asindicated at 12 is designed to be inserted into the upper end of thetube 9.

It is thought that the operation of the pounder herein described will beobvious and a detail description thereof will not therefore benecessary. Itis sufficient to say, however, that the action of thepounder causes the Water after passing through the clothes, to flowoutward into the compartment located within the cap 8 and it leaves thiscompartment through the openings l0. Obviously the passsage of dirtywater through this compartment will result in a greater or less quantityof grease, etc., being deposited within the compartment. When it isdesired to clean the pounder the cap portion 8 is unscrewed from thebase portion l whereupon the tube 9 may be lifted from the small end oftube 4 and the interior of the cap, as well as both faces of the disk 2,can be thoroughly cleaned.

What is claimed is:

A conical clothes pounder sub-divided..

transversely into a frusto-conical base and a conical cap, said cap andbase being disposed to lap at their adjoining ends, said lappingportions being screw threaded and constitutingv means for detachablyconnecting the sections together, a disk secured to the threaded end ofthe base section and having a central depression, a tapered tube eX-tending through and above the depressed portion of the disk andimmovably connected thereto, said tube having apertures therein locatedabove the bottom of the depressed portion of the disk, said tube anddepression constituting a trap for sediment Within the In testimony thatI claim the -foregoing as pounder and above the base section, and a myoWn, I have hereto affixed my signature 10 tbe imrnoyably oineote totheD apex o; in the presence of two Witnesses. t e cap section an lsposeto em race an I 5 bear against that portion of the apertured v HARRY L'CROOKER tube projecting into the cap section, there Witnesses: beingoutlets Within the cap section and ad- LoUIs A. TERHUNE, jacent theapex. A. H. INGRAM.

